The plan, such as it was, came together in Ki Yeonbom's lab over cold coffee and a city map.
"We don't remove the existing eleven," Ki Yeonbom said, for the third time, because Yeon Yujun had suggested it twice and looked like he was preparing to suggest it a third. "If we do, whoever placed them knows immediately that the array has been compromised. We lose our window."
"And if they place the last two while we're sitting here strategizing."
"Then we deal with that when it happens." Ki Yeonbom's voice was patient in the specific way that meant he'd already considered and dismissed every objection. "We need to know who's doing this. Removing the stones stops the immediate threat but tells us nothing. We wait, we watch the two predicted sites, and we catch them in the act."
"Assuming they come back."
"One passive stone went dark yesterday. They'll check on the array." He pulled the building schematics for both sites onto the hologram. "The question is when."
